Re: requestAction wants view from requested controller

cool...can you explain why that works?

On Mar 27, 8:08 am, Tilen Majerle <tilen.maje...@gmail.com> wrote:
> try this:
>
> <?php
>
> function parse()
> {
>         $this->autoRender = false;
>     //using the url, get a controller's action data
>         $data = $this->requestAction(array("controller" =>
> $this->controller, "action" => $this->action), array('pass' =>
> array($this->actionParams)));
>     $this->set("data", $data);
>         $this->render("/elements/api");
>     return true;
>  }
>
> ?>
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> Lep pozdrav, Tilen Majerlehttp://majerle.eu
>
> 2011/3/27 mlecho <saltlessbr...@gmail.com>
>
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> > hi, i am building an api plugin for my webapp...i have almost
> > everything working well except for the actual rendering. The plugin
> > will authenticate and then essentially, from the url, do an action ,
> > grab the data, and return it as xml or json. An exmaple url might be:
> >http://webapp.local/api/?token=1234¶ms=4&method=users.view
>
> > the plugin will validate a user by token, then call the Users
> > controller view action, passing 4.
>
> > In my plugin beforeFilter method, i've called
>
> > $this->layout = "api";
> > $this->autoRender = false;
>
> > and the actual logic to get the data looks like:
>
> > function parse()
> >        {
>
> >                //using the url, get a controller's action data
> >                $data = $this->requestAction(
>
> >  array("controller"=>$this->controller,"action"=>$this->action),
> >                        array('pass' => array($this->actionParams))
> >                );
> >        $this->render("/elements/api");
> >                $this->set("data",$data);
> >        }
>
> > if i debug $data, everything i expect is there. However, cake's
> > warning is i am missing the view for my plugin controller...but it's
> > there. Thoughts?
>
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